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Bill Bryson's African Diary
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this book was short, but what can you expect when he only spends a week there? he brings the reality of africa and kenya and all of the proceeds go to CARE. ... »
Imperial Reckoning: The Untold Story of Britain's Gulag in Kenya
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Forty years after Kenyan independence from Britain, the words "Mau Mau" still conjure images of crazed savages hacking up hapless white settlers with machetes. The British Colonial Office, struggling to preserve its far-flung empire of dependencies after World War II, spread hysteria about Kenya's Mau Mau independence movement by depicting its supporte... »
The Flame Trees of Thika: Memories of an African Childhood (Penguin Twentieth-Century Classics)
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This is by now a revered classic of a young girl's childhood in the Kenyan countryside under British rule. One reads this and instantly identifies with the colonial family. It's a kind of Swiss Family Robinson story about that magical time in Kenya and thereabouts before World War I when the world seemed to be at the feet of the British King and all gl... »
Facing Mount Kenya
Mzee is deep,truly. Too bad I wasn't born early enough to experience him. I read this book a long time ago-9 years, I was 16 then. It moved m... »
Histories of the Hanged: The Dirty War in Kenya
With the fracas about the American prison at Abu Ghraib in Iraq, one could read this book for a different perspective. It looks back at the anti-colonial ... »
Birds of Kenya and Northern Tanzania
The book is very comprehensive. Unfortunately, even though it claims to be a field guide, it is too heavy to carry around. It is not a book to take with y... »
The Man-Eaters of Tsavo (Peter Capstick Library
In 1898 John H. Patterson arrived in East Africa with a mission to build a railway bridge over the Tsavo River. What started out as a simple engineering p... »
The Birds of East Africa: Kenya, Tanzania, Ugan
"Birds of East Africa" by Stevenson and Fanshawe is generally a good field guide. The layout is fairly standard, typical of most good field guides for bi... »
The Worlds of a Maasai Warrior: An Autobiograph
Very interesting first person account of a Maasai man who becomes western educationed and gives insight to what growing up in a Maasai village was like. Q... »
African Nights: True Stories from the Author of
My family and I visited Kenya last year and were utterly overwhelmed by the experience. Following that trip we read several books on Africa and amongst th... »
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